From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git@google.com>, <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
<x86@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<dyoung@redhat.com>, "Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/efi: Drop support for fake EFI memory maps
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 13:54:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6683178094c32_5639294c7@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZoMUnSaqORagM_Y2@agluck-desk3.sc.intel.com>
Tony Luck wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 01:17:01PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > [ add Tony who may care about the more-reliable removal ]
>
> I don't think I care about removal the fake options. I have had
> systems that support real "more-reliable" memory for many years.
Ok, lets remove it and see what happens. I recall now that the major
policy knob that users may care about is efi=nosoftreserve, and the
ability to specify efi_fake_mem for testing purposes can move to memmap=
on the assumption that kernel-devs are much less likely to specify
broken settings, or at least can pick up the pieces.
Ard, you can add:
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-01 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-20 7:32 Ard Biesheuvel
2024-07-01 12:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2024-07-01 13:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2024-07-01 20:17 ` Dan Williams
2024-07-01 20:42 ` Tony Luck
2024-07-01 20:54 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2024-07-01 22:25 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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